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North Lancs is golden – let’s prove it!
Grace Russell, , April, Local Food Column, North Lancs is Gold campaign, Uncategorised, 0FoodFutures is supporting North Lancashire to work towards a Gold Sustainable Food Places Award. Anna Clayton shares what this...
Janet Swan shares her passion for being a Food Champion and hopes to inspire others to join. Whenever I...
Local food resilience: exploring Community Supported Agriculture
Grace Russell, , Local Food Column, March, The Plot, 0Ellen Pearce, the Plot and FarmStart Coordinator, explains the Community Supported Agriculture model and its integral role in our...
Deborah Simmonds invites allotment holders across Lancaster District to join the upcoming skill share on allotment committees. Are you...
Growing Food, Growing Community sessions
Grace Russell, , Events, Food and Health, Local Food Column, The Plot, 0Vaso Makri, the Plot’s volunteer and community engagement coordinator, invites you to join the array of Growing Food, Growing...
Jim Greenan from FoodFutures’ THRIVE Magazine asked some of Lancaster’s refugee community about the importance of food from the...
Support local food growing: a story from a FoodFriend
Grace Russell, , January, Local Food Column, The Plot, Uncategorised, 0This week Liz McWatt shares her journey with food growing and health, from childhood memories to her early career,...
Lancaster’s Potato Day returns
Grace Russell, , Events, Growing your own, January, Local Food Column, 0Lancaster’s ‘Potato Day’ again falls on the last Saturday in January (on 25 January 2025) at the Friends Meeting...
Anna Clayton shares what to expect from North Lancashire’s FoodFutures network in 2025. The darker and colder months of...
Reflections on 2024 at the Plot
Grace Russell, , December, FarmStart, Local Food Column, The Plot, Uncategorised, 0As the 2024 veg growing season draws to a close it’s a time of reflection and review, mutterings about...
Join the FarmStart Training Programme 2025: Transforming North Lancashire’s Food System
Grace Russell, , FarmStart, Local Food Column, November, The Faces Behind Our Food, The Plot, 0Grace Russell, from FoodFutures, shares what people can expect from the 2025 FarmStart Training and why they should sign...
Grace Russell, the Marketing and Communications Coordinator at FoodFutures, invites people to join this year’s FoodFriends Autumn Feast. Come...
Vasiliki Makri, the new volunteer and community engagement coordinator for the Plot, invites people to join the friendly community...
Gather Launch: the new online farmers market for North Lancs
Grace Russell, , Events, Local Food Column, October, The Plot, 0Jo Haughton, Communications Coordinator for North Lancashire Food Hub, welcomes the public to meet the faces behind their local...
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Featured from The Archive: The Faces Behind Our Food
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Deborah takes on new allotment development role for North Lancashire 1 June 2026 -
Become a FoodFriend to help grow Lancaster market gardens 18 August 2025 -
Love Local Honey: Bee Pro-active 1 August 2025 -
Passivity not an option for Farmstarter Tommy 21 July 2025 -
Amazing things happening at grassroots level 17 July 2025 -
Join the FarmStart Training Programme 2025: Transforming North Lancashire’s Food System 28 November 2024 -
News from the Plot: September 2024 7 October 2024 -
A year of inspiration 18 January 2024 -
Our Food Stories: Andy Parkinson FarmStart Trainee 19 May 2022 -
William Beadon – Thornton Meadow Mushrooms 17 October 2016 -
Spud Club – Claver Hill 17 October 2016 -
Felicity (Fil) Duirwyn – Filbert’s Bakery 17 October 2016 -
William Howard – Billy’s Eggs 17 October 2016 -
Bruce Crowther – The FIG Tree 17 October 2016 -
Alan Schofield – Growing With Nature 17 October 2016 -
Gary Troughton – Dolphinholme Honey 17 October 2016 -
Amanda Gorton – Mansergh Hall Farm 17 October 2016 -
Sharon Peacock – Cockerham Boers 17 October 2016 -
Ray Edmondson – Edmondsons Fresh Fish 17 October 2016 -
Steph Stephenson – Stephensons Dairy 17 October 2016














